Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO.) is touting a major investment in new military housing at Fort Leonard Wood as one of his main accomplishments in office, except he voted against legislations providing the funding multiple times.
According to a St. Louis NBC affiliate, Hawley has repeatedly claimed on the campaign trail that he “secured” $100 million for the construction of “new housing for our soldiers in Fort Leonard Wood.”
But, Hawley voted against military construction budgets multiple times, including the National Defense Authorization Act for 2024 last December that provided $50 million in funding for new housing construction at Fort Leonard Wood.
Hawley also voted against the NDAA and the federal budget for the 2023 fiscal year which would account for the rest of the nearly $100 million sum he referenced, the outlet reported.
“Hawley not only voted against the Defense Authorization Act, he filibustered it,” Former Republican Sen. Jack Danforth said.
“He felt so strongly against the various components of it — military pay, raise, rebuilding the Navy, rebuilding the artillery, rebuilding the whole defense structure — that he filibustered it. Filibustered! You could vote against it, OK, if you think we don’t want to do that much for defense. But filibuster it? No,” Danforth added.
Hawley, a staunch supporter of Donald Trump, is facing Lucas Kunce, a Marine veteran, who hopes to flip the seat back to Democratic control after Hawley defeated former Sen. Claire McCaskill in the 2018 midterms.
In a post on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, Kunce slammed Hawley for lying about supporting military families.
“Lying about supporting military families? While even voting AGAINST supporting them? That amounts to nothing more than stolen valor,” Kunce wrote.
